Some questions on Stackoverflow or other sites in SE are marked as community wiki. This means that anyone (above a minimum reputation/Karma) can edit the question or the answers, that there is no “main author” anymore, but instead a mix of authors defined by percentage of contribution, no one gets reputation/Karma on anything.
I think that the loss of authorship is important so that anyone would feel comfortable editing the question/answers to make it a better source of up to date knowledge
What do you mean by that?
Some questions on Stackoverflow or other sites in SE are marked as community wiki. This means that anyone (above a minimum reputation/Karma) can edit the question or the answers, that there is no “main author” anymore, but instead a mix of authors defined by percentage of contribution, no one gets reputation/Karma on anything.
I think that the loss of authorship is important so that anyone would feel comfortable editing the question/answers to make it a better source of up to date knowledge